MATCH REPORTS BY MONTH

A third home draw against a bottom-of-the-table club in four weeks, and I
guess it's bye-bye to the playoffs now, if only because all four clubs above
us are playing so well.
I guess the most surprising thing about this scoreline was how few of us
predicted it beforehand. In retrospect, what on earth possessed us to even
think we might beat Brighton? What is it about our team which results in
them being ... More...

The "simply not good enough" of the last home game seems a lot longer than
ten days ago now. Given that Leicester went mad at Portman Road and we've
yet to see Pompey, it perhaps wasn't surprising that Reading - the
third-placed side - were just about the classiest opponents we've seen here
this season. It's no fluke they're where they are: their movement was
excellent, their speed often unanswerable, and even with ... More...

Twenty minutes gone, Hermann collapses like he's been shot after an
innocuous-looking tangle with a defender, he's pounding the turf with his
hands in absolute agony, the physio's administering gas and air, Mrs R next
to me is being reminded of childbirth, and quite frankly I'd rather have
been anywhere else than watching this distressing scene.
The impact of the rest of the afternoon wasn't much different, it was just
in a slower, more ... More...